Hotel-register.



PATB'NTED AUG. 11, 1903..

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UNITED STATES Patented August 11, 1903.

PATENT ()EEICE.

CHARLES H. HARGER, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

HOTEL-REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent BIO; 735,972, dated. August11, 1903. Application filed October 13, 1902. Serial No. 1 27,037. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. HARGER, a citizen of the UnitedStates,-residingin the city and county of San Francisco, State ofCalifornia, have invented an Improvement in Hotel-Registers; and Ihereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the same.

My invention relates to improvements in registering devices in whichthere is a containing box or case, a series of loose leaves,

and a transversely and longitudinally lined supporting-plate for theleaves.

Its object is to provide a perpetual register for hotel purposes whichshall be simple, neat, and compact and which shall permit of theintroduction of additional leaves when necessary and of the removal ofleaves when they have become filled.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows general view of device withrecess closed and a sheet in position upon the ruled support. Fig. 2 isa general view of device with recess open, showing column of sheetsready for use. Fig. 3 is a back view. of case.

A represents a case with its top preferably inclined, as shown. The casemay be suitably swiveled to the counter or desk, as indicated at 2.Extending transversely and centrally of the case is a recess 3, in whichis contained a series of loose unruled sheets or leaves 4:, carried upona suitable file, as 5. The latter is disposed centrally of the recessand the comparative. lengths of the recess and sheets are such that asmall space for the entrance of the fingers will be left between the endwalls of the recess and the ends of the sheets, to whichever side thelatter may lie.

6 is a lid hinged to the upper edge of the box and closing down over theadjacent column of sheets. The top of this lid has a notation along itslower edge corresponding to the heading on the top of a page of anordinary hotel-book register as the date, name of the guest, residence,room, &c.

7 is a movable plate adapted to extend over that portion of the recessleft uncovered by lid 6. This plate is transversely lined, as at 8,corresponding with the lines of the page of a book and is dividedlongitudinally bylines 9 into columns corresponding to theabovementioned notation on the lid.

By lifting the lid a sheet may be folded from the body of blanks beneathand laid upon the ruled surface of the plate 7. The sheets are of suchquality that the ruling on the plate is plainly visible through thepaper, so that the entries may be made upon the sheet in proper manner.When a sheet has been filled, the plate is withdrawn to allow the sheetto drop into the space beneath, whereupon a fresh sheet may be turned,as before, and laid upon the plate.

The panels on the top of the case at either side of the recess may becovered with glass and form suitable receptacles for advertisements andthe like. The interior spaces below these panels may be utilized asdrawerspaces to receive aecount-card-index devices entering the back ofthe case, as indicated at 10.

Suitable penholding means and ink-receptacles may be provided on thesides of the case, as at 11.

A register of this character is always easily referred to, and the useof blank sheets renders its maintenance inexpensive.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-- 1. A hotel-register comprising in combination acasing having a centraltransverse recess, loose sheets foldable in saidrecess, a movable ruled supporting-plate, forming a closure'for a partof the recess and upon which the sheet-s may-be separately laid and amember serving as a closure for another part of the recess and havingnotation registering with the rulings on said plate.

2. The combination in a hotel-register of a casing having a centraltransverse recess, a file disposed centrally of said recess'and providedwith register-sheets, and closures for said recess, one of whichclosures affords a ruled support for said sheets.

3. The combination in a hotel-register, of a, casing having a recess oropening, a file in said opening provided with register-sheets, a lidfolding over the sheets on one side of said file, a, movable plateforming a closure for that portion of the recess left uncovered by saidlid, and said plate adapted to support a sheet. .0

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

CHARLES H. HARGER. Witnesses:

S. H. N oURsE, JESSIE O. BRODIE.

